Possessives in non-European languages

 

Alieva, Natalia F. (1992) "Malay and Cham possession compared". Oceanic Linguistics 31 (1), 13-21.

Anderson, John M. (1979) “Serialization, dependency, and the syntax of possessives in Moru”. Studia Linguistica 33 (1), 1-25.

Asmah Hj. Omar (1974) "The possessive phrase in the Western Austronesian languages". Oceanic Linguistics 13, 391-407.

Bahr, Donald M. (1986) “Pima-Papago –ga ‘alienability’”. IJAL 52 (2), 161-171.

Beck, David (1997) "Patterns of nominalization in Bella Coola and Lushootseed". Poster presented at the 1997 International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dbeck/nominals.html

Benton, R.A. (1968) “Numeral and attributive classifiers in Trukese”. Oceanic Linguistics 7 (2), 104-146.

Bhattacharya, Tanmoy (1999) "Specificity in the Bangla DP". In Rajendra Singh (ed.), Yearbook of South Asian Language and Linguistics, vol 2, New Delhi/ London: Sage Publications, 71-99. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uclytbh/ysall2.pdf

Bhattacharya, Tanmoy (1999) "Kinship inversion in Bangla". Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester 7, 143-156. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uclytbh/plum7.pdf

Bird, Charles S. (1972) The Syntax and Semantics of Possession in Bambara. Bloomington, Indiana University Linguistic Club.

Blake, Barry J. (1984) “Problems for possessor ascension: some Australian examples”. Linguistics 22, 437-453.

Boeder, Winfried (1980) " 'Haben' in den Kartwelsprachen". In C.Lehmann & G.Brettschneider (hrsg.), Wege zur Universalienforschung, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 207-217.

Borer, Hagit (1999) "Deconstructing the construct". In K. Johnson and I. Roberts (eds.), Beyond Principles and Parameters, Kluwer, Dordrecht. http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~borer/decon.doc

Buckley, Eugene (1989). "The Alsea noun phrase". Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics: Studies in Native American Languages V, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 20-36. ftp://babel.ling.upenn.edu/papers/faculty/gene_buckley/Alsea_NP.pdf

Burton, S.C. (1997) "Past tense on nouns as death, destruction, and loss". In Proceedings of NELS 27, 65-77.

Chappell, Hillary and William McGregor (eds.) (1996) The grammar of inalienability. A typological perspective on body part terms and the part-whole relation. (Empirical approaches to languages typology, 14.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [###]

Chung, Chan (1993) “A Lexical Approach to Inalienable Possession Constructions in Korean”. In A. Kathol and C. J. Pollard (eds.), Papers in Syntax, (OSU Working Papers in Linguistics 42), Ohio State University: Department of Linguistics, 46-87.

Crowley, Terry (1985) “Common noun phrase marking in Proto-Oceanic”. Oceanic Linguistics 24, 135-193.

Csúri, P. (1989) "The NE construction in Marathi and the genitive". Ms. Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.

Dahan Netzer, Yael & Michael Elhadad  (1999) “Bilingual Hebrew-English Generation of Possessives and Partitives: Raising the Input Abstraction Level”. Proceedings of the 37th meeting of the ACL, Maryland, 144--151. http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/papers/acl99.ps.gz

Danon, Gabi (1996) The Syntax of Determiners in Hebrew. MA thesis, Tel-Aviv University. http://www.tau.ac.il/~danon/Thesis.pdf

Davies, William D. (1984) “Inalienable possession and Choctaw referential coding”. IJAL 50. 384-402.

Davies, William D. (1997) "Relational Succession in Kinyarwanda Possessor Ascension." Lingua 101, 89- 114.

Dixon, Robert M.W. (1969) ”Relative clauses and possessive phrases in two Australian languages.” Language  45: 35 - 44.

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen (2000), “(In)definiteness spread: from Romanian Genitives to Hebrew Construct State Nominals”. In V. Motapanyane (ed), Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax, John Benjamins, Amsterdam. http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Sorin/

Ewing, M. C. (1995) Two Pathways to Identifiability in Cirebon Javanese. In: Proceedings of BLS 21S.

Facundes, Sidney da S. (1995) "Possession and unpossession in Apurina (Maipure, Arawakan)". In Proceedings of Language South of the Rio Bravo, A Parasession to the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

Hale, Ken (1981) "Preliminary remarks on the grammar of part-whole relations in Warlpiri". In J.Hollyman, A.Pawley (eds.), Studies in Pacific Languages & Cultures in honour of Bruce Biggs, Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 333-344.

Healey, P.M. (1965) Telefol Noun Phrases. Canberra: ANU.

Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva (2001) “Attributive possession in creoles”. Ms. In Pidgins & Creoles Archive.

Hinnebusch, Tom & Robert S. Kirsner (1980) “On the inference on ‘inalienable possession’ in Swahili”. Journal of African Linguistics 2 (1), 1-16.

Kang, Myung-You (1987) “‘Possessor raising’ in Korean”. In Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics II, Cambridge: Harvard Univ.,  80-88.

Kawashima, Ruriko (1993) "The structure of noun phrases: Arguments for quantifier phrase and number phrase". Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 11, 56-72.

Keenan Edward L. & Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony (1998) “Raising from NP in Malagasy”. Ms. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/keenan/raising.pdf

Kihm, Alain (2000) “Wolof genitive constructions and the Construct State”. In J. Lecarme, J. Lowenstamm & U. Shlonsky (eds), Research in Afroasiatic Grammar, Papers from the Third Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis 1996. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 202. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Kim, Ji-Yung (2000?) “Adjectives in construct”. Ms. http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~kjyung/constructadjectives.pdf

Kimenyi, Alexandre (1977) “Possessor objectivization in Kinyarwanda”. In P.F.A. Kotey & H. Der-Houssikian (eds.), Language and Linguistic Problems in Africa (= Proceedings of the VII Conference on African Linguistics), Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press, 303-14.

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (1995) "Possessive and relational forms in Chukchi". In F.Plank, Frans (ed.) 1995.

Laidig, Wyn D. (1993) "Insights from Larike possessive constructions". Oceanic Linguistics 32 (2), 311-351.

Langacker, Ronald W. (1972) "Possessives in Classical Nahuatl". IJAL 38, 173-186.

Lehmann, Christian (1998) Possession in Yucatec Maya. Structures - Functions - Typology. München -Newcastle: LINCOM Europa.

Lichtenberk, Frantisek (1983) ”Relational classifiers.” Lingua 60: 147 - 176.

Lichtenberk, Frantisek (2000) "The lone adjective of Toqabaqita". Paper presented in the conference "Parts of Speech in and across languages", Univ. of Helsinki.

Michelson, Karin (1991) "Possessor stranding in Oneida". Linguistic Inquiry 22 (4), 756-761.

Mohammad, Mohammad. “Checking and Licensing Inside DP in Palestinian Arabic”. In Semitic archive.

Munro, Pamela (1984) “The syntactic status of object possessor raising in Western Muskogean”. BLS 10, 634-49.

Muromatsu, Keiko (1994) "Integral and Spatials in Japanese, and the Internal Structure of Possessives,"generals paper, University of Maryland, College Park.

Nichols, Johanna (1988) ”On alienable and inalienable possession.” In Shipley, W. (ed.).In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 557 - 609.

O'Connor, Mary C. (1994) "The marking of possession in Northern Pomo: Privative opposition and pragmatic inference". BLS 20, 387-401.

O'Connor, Mary C. (1996) "The situated interpretation of possessor-raising". In M.Shibatani & S.A.Thompson (eds.), Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 125-156.

Ortmann, Albert & Alexandra Popescu (2000) “Haplology involving morphologically bound and free elements: evidence from Romanian”. AP  No. 118. http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/sfb282/C9/SFBPapierRum.PDF

Ouhalla, Jamal (forthc.) "Possession in sentences and noun phrases". In J.Lecarme, J.Lowenstamm & U.Shlonsky (eds.), Studies in Afroasiatic Grammar, Vol.II, John Benjamins. Also in Semitic archive.

Pawley, Andrew & Timoci Sayaba (1990) "Possessive-Marking in Wayan, a Western Fijian Language: Noun Class or Relational system". In: J.H.C.S.Davidson (ed.), Pacific Island Languages. Essays in honour of G.B.Milner, London, Honololu.

Plank, Frans (ed.) (1995) Double Case. Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rijkhoff, Jan (1992) The Noun Phrase, A Typological Study of Its Form and Structure, PhD Dissertation, University of Amsterdam.

Rijkhoff, Jan (to appear) "Dimensions of adnominal modification". In M.Haspelmath & E. König (eds.), Handbook of Language Typology and Language Universals.

Ross, Malcolm (1998) "Proto-Oceanic adjectival categories and their morphosyntax". Oceanic Linguistics 37 (1), 85-119.

Ross, Malcolm (1998) "Possessive-like attribute constructions in the Oceanic languages of Northwest Melanesia". Oceanic Linguistics 37 (2), 234-276.

Rude, Noel (1986) “Discourse pragmatic context for genitive promotion in Nez Perce”. Studies in Language 10, 109-36.

Shlonsky, Ur (2000) "The form of Semitic noun phrases". In Semitic archive

Siloni, Tal (to appear) "Adjectival constructs and Inalienable constructions". In J.Ouhalla & U.Shlonsky (eds.), Themes and Issues in the Syntax of Arabic and Hebrew, Kluwer, Dordrecht.  Also in Semitic archive.

Siloni, Tal (2000) “Prosodic Case Checking Domain: The Case of Constructs”. http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/lingui/downloads/siloni/casechecking.rtf

Tsunoda, Tasaku (1976) "The derivational affix 'having' in Warungu". In R.M.W.Dixon (ed.), Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages, Canberra-New Jersey, 214-225.

Tsunoda, Tasaku (1995) “The possession cline in Japanese and other languages”. In H.Chappell & W.McGregor (eds.), The Grammar of Inalienability. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 566-630.

Velazquez, Maura (1989) "Guarani possessive constructions". Paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, Eugene Oregon, May 1989. http://crl.ucsd.edu/newsletter/3-6/Article1.html

Velazquez-Castillo, Maura (1996) Inalienability, Incorporation and Possessor Ascension in Guarani. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Wilson, William H. (1982) Proto-Polynesian Possessive Marking. Canberra: ANU. (Pacific Linguistics. B-85.)

Wurm, S.A. (1972) "Notes on the indication of possession with nouns in Reef and Santa Cruz Islands languages". In Papers in Linguistics of Melanesia, No. 3, (Pacific Linguistics. A-35.), Canberra, 85-113.

von Werner Diem (1986) "Alienable und inalienable Possession im Semitischen". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 136 (2), 227-291.

 

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